Steven Klein on Alejandro

This is too deliciously idiotic not to record. Steven Klein, director of the Lady Gaga video Alejandro has this to say (to MTV) about this particular piece of commercial pop :

"I felt a narrative drive you could make interesting, and we both aligned on the vision for the film. I was not thinking in terms of influences. I saw it more as a combination of cinema and theater. It is about a woman's desire to resurrect a dead love and who can not face the brutality of her present situation. The pain of living without your true love." Have you got over laughing your heads off? There's more. "The religious symbolism is not meant to denote anything negative, but represents the character's battle between the dark forces of this world and the spiritual salvation of the soul. Thus at the end of the film, she chooses to be a nun, and the reason her mouth and eyes disappear is because she is withdrawing her senses from the world of evil and going inward towards prayer and contemplation." And as for the scene in which Lady Gaga ingests rosary beads, Mr Klein says it was meant to represent "the desire to take in the holy."
His agent should forbid him to ramble to the public, thereby making a nonsensical piece of work even more ludicrous. It's as if the video was not banal enough. Are all photographers (of this ilk) like that? Where's Meisel when you need him?